School bus services · Illinois

First Student

Rockton, IL · ~88 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.2
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Student runs at 516% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School bus services workplace, earning a grade F.

First Student: 23.2 TCR = 516% of School bus services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Student safety composite

First Student scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

F

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 27.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

First Student: 7.3 → 39.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 39.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2023

First Student's TCR rose 31.8 from 7.3 in 2022 to 39.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485410 · Rockton, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.2 · 516% of ind

  • DART 27.9 DART
  • RANK #109/110
  • PHOTO 12819 Tumbleweed
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 12819 Tumbleweed (0.4 TCR gap)

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First Student in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows First Student averages 23.2 TCR (516% of the School bus services BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

First Student TCR series: 2022=7.3 · 2023=39.1 · BLS 4.5

Where First Student falls in its industry

1,574 School bus services establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #109 safest of 110 School bus services employers in Illinois.

First Student (88 employees, TCR 23.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate First Student
First Student (88 employees, TCR 23.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 4.3

First Student has more employees than the School bus services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2023 39.1 27.9 7 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485410 · IL · Rockton

1,574 School bus services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 12 employers in Rockton, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 12819 Tumbleweed 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Student Lower Moreland 22.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centralia/Chehalis Pupil Transportation Co-op 21.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR transportation 20.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE ENGIE Distributed Solar and Storage 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE 72E - Western N - IL Electric Ops 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western N - IL Electric Ops 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crystal Lake Reporting Center 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Company 650 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor a Division of Carrier Commercial Refrigeration 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taylor Commercial Foodservice, Inc. 539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockton 308 FTE
NAT-TCR Midwest Utility Services, LLC 23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Savage 23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wesley Haven Villa 23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Daughters of Sarah Nursing Center 23.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Headquarters 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Super Stop & Shop Store 102813 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100524 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thinkery 88 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.